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   Margaret Catchpole

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   2753

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   Richmond

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   Durham Bowes

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   22 Inalls Lane

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   Richmond is on the land of the Darug and Darkinjung people.

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   <p>Margaret Catchpole was a servant, thief and engaging correspondent.</p><p>Born in Suffolk, England, Margaret worked as a servant before being convicted of stealing a horse and later of escaping from the Suffolk County Gaol. Transported to New South Wales for life in 1801, she worked as a cook, nurse and midwife.</p><p>Margaret&rsquo;s vivid letters to friends and family in England were the basis for a partly fictional account of her life published posthumously in Richard Cobbold&rsquo;s <em>The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl.</em></p><p>Margaret&rsquo;s writing is an important literary record of Australia&rsquo;s early convict period. It is also the only written record of the devastating 1806 and 1809 Hawkesbury floods.</p>

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   Margaret Catchpole (1762–1819) was a servant, thief and engaging correspondent. Her writing is an important literary record of Australia’s early convict period.

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   <p>Folk legend, servant and friend to Free Settler families (1762-1819)</p>